I want to reference an intent name that can be used further down the flow. For example, if a user says I wanna buy electronics, the intent node routes the user to the electronics node. But I need to be able to store the intent name ("Electronics" in this case) to check an external Google sheet to check whether electronics is actually available. I'll need an exact match of the intent name for this.

hi there. What I would do in your case is assign a new variable with that intent as a value e.g.

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let intent = "Electronics"

The simplest method is to duplicate this code and assign a different value depending on the intent so if the intent is "Software":

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let intent = "Software"

Alternatively there are different methods of doing this in code format but I would recommend this simpler approach. Once you capture the

intent

variable you can pass that along to make.com or do a query on your database to see if this product/category exists. Hope that helps !

Interesting approach. I'm gonna try this. Thanks a lot!

Can you post your flow ?

as you can see, I'm setting a name for each intent inside a session variable, then using If statements to route to appropriate categories.

ah so instead of using intents You could provide a single choice card and flow depending on the specific choice (in your case meat, Shelfish, Freshwater Fish). Than afterwards you can either present your knowledge in a Carousel/List or present your dishes in text. If you want to have an open-ended conversation without buttons to click: in this case an AI node could extract which category is being desired: e.g. "I would like to eat a steak meal" , Ai can extract : category=meat, dish=steak. In your cause a menu would make more sense since you only have n amount of dishes (lets say 10 meals). Generally speaking I use the intent more for "cancel" "redo" (command intents related to the actual bot itself, not the content within).